Refugee shipment

Summer is on the downward side as the days march on. I need to get in gear and complete the part-time side job I agreed to work on many months ago. But I am having trouble getting motivated, even though the job involves some really interesting work. I am working on a special collection of primary and secondary source material of C.S. Lewis and other notables such as Dorothy Sayers. This collection includes personal letters, photographs, and of course, books, as well as other items. Yesterday I saw the book given to Joy Gresham by C.S. Lewis on the occasion of their first meeting. It’s a copy of Mere Christianity, with the flyleaf inscribed in her hand to commemorate that meeting. Neat stuff! Lots of things have been happening in other areas of our lives. My brother, Jeff, bought Keegan an 18′ swimming pool, and we now have that set up. Keegan is as happy as a clam…er, fish. He is in the pool so much that I’m fairly certain he will soon grow fins and scales. I finally managed to install the wonderful Tiffany-style hanging lamp that my mother gave us. She and my father had bought it almost 30 years ago and it hung in our house all the years I was growing up, so it possesses many memories for me. We had a short but sweet visit from my in-laws this past weekend. As they normally do, they brought along a huge array of special grocery items for us from Trader Joe’s, which we can’t get around here. It’s what we jokingly refer to as the “refugee airdrop shipment.” Ah, ecstasy, to enjoy Trader Joe’s black licorice, English toffee, almond clusters, dried tropical fruit mix, plus tons of homemade bread and other goodies. Saturday evening, we met my mother and brother, Jeff, for supper in Lafayette at a nice Greek restaurant. My mother had made us a wonderful chocolate cake, plus her special banana bread. We can snarf on delicious food for days now, if not weeks .